I’m in love, and definitely not regretting my decision to switch to the MacBook Air. (Shut up and take my money!) Especially when I found I could literally drag and drop my entire mindmap from Scapple into a corkboard folder on Scrivener, in the SAME arrangement as it was in the mindmap (Mac Scrivener has a free-form corkboard that the PC version doesn’t yet.) ![]() I tried it the other day and immediately bought it. No, it’s not available for PCs as of this writing, although they say they’re working on it. Well, ironically, now that I’ve switched to a MacBook Air from a PC-flavored laptop, I had to get the Mac version of Scrivener which I already knew had more features.Īnd now, the same company’s come out with Scapple for Mac, an AWESOME mindmap software that totally gets me. Thus since word slinging is sort of how I pay my bills and put food on my table, and my writing software is an invaluable part of my writing process, I switched to Scrivener. If you drag notes from a Scapple board into a Scrivener binder (or better yet, a freeform corkboard), you'll find it does a good job of bringing your rough work into the program for continued refinement.I mentioned a few weeks ago I’d had to ditch my previous writing program SuperNotecard due to it totally fucking not working anymore problems with it after a Java update broke it and the programmers’ not giving a shit lack of a timely response to addressing the issue. It is worth noting that integration with Scrivener does already exist. Thus this request will almost certainly never come to fruition. In short, embedding Scapple into Scrivener would either require one or both programs to compromise their design goals, or offer such a loose interpretation of "integration" that they might as well just remain separate programs, where each can have full menu and shortcut services. This would be a trivial construct to create in Scapple, but it would be a "shape" that makes no sense at all to an outline based program. Scapple on the other hand requires no connections of notes to other notes, and can allow connections that do not produce a logical sequence, like a ring of notes linked end to end which occasionally tangentially link outside of the ring. What does dragging a note up and the left mean, in terms of where that note should end up in Scrivener's outline? This is one of the things that sets Scapple apart from the more familiar "mindmapping" software, which does use a hierarchy arrangement that can be expressed as an outline. Scapple on the other hand has no concept at all of linear order or nesting. Scrivener is founded upon a rigid outline model, where every item in the binder must have one (and only one) parent item and those items fall in a linear order.
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